Chamonix
\ʃa.mɔ.ni\
The verdict
“Chamonix” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,141. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,141
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom ancien ou courant de Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, ville française touristique de Haute-Savoie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chamonix · Chamonix · French
Chamonix · rank #24,141 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #24,141
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH champêtre
Nearest frequency peer: champêtre (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Chamonix »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cafards
cafards
75,864 corpus weight
- CARDS
CARDS
75,863 corpus weight
- cedex
cedex
75,862 corpus weight
- Chamonix
Chamonix
75,860 corpus weight
- champêtre
champêtre
75,859 corpus weight
- chapiteaux
chapiteaux
75,858 corpus weight
What this shows « Chamonix » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chamonix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.mɔ.ni\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,141 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Chamonix »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Chamonix (IPA \ʃa.mɔ.ni\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #24,141 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom ancien ou courant de Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, ville française touristique de Haute-Savoie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Chamonix, with forms such as "cahmonix", "cchamonix", and "chammonix". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "chamois", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Chamonix, spelled C-H-A-M-O-N-I-X.
Definition
- 1Nom ancien ou courant de Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, ville française touristique de Haute-Savoie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Chamonix appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une à une les succursales des magasins de luxe parisiens, londoniens ou berlinois fermaient, devant rouvrir, l’été, dans les stations chic : Chamonix, Royat, ou Aix-les-Bains.
Ainsi, en juillet 2012, la pratique du wingsuit a été interdite par arrêté municipal sur décision du maire de Chamonix, et ce depuis deux sites de la commune de Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, en Haute-Savoie : le sommet du Brévent (2 525 mètres), dans le massif des Aiguilles Rouges, et l’Aiguille du Midi (3 842 mètres), dans le massif du Mont-Blanc.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahmonix
- cchamonix
- chammonix
- chamnoix
- chamoinx
- chamonixx
- chamonnix
- chamonxi
- chaomnix
- chhamonix
- chmaonix
- hcamonix
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Chamonix - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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